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Originally posted by HarlemHottie
I find it curious that you can dismiss the influence of federal funding so easily, yet place so much weight in an as-yet-unproven notion that historians (some of whom so happen to be black) are so blinded by some unmet need to 'blame the white man' that they have purposely excluded evidence from the historical record.
Originally posted by passenger
Curiously, none of my history professors have been black.
They seem to bear an irrational fear of telling the historical truth of slavery... I do know that they reacted vehemently against any opinion other than the orthodoxy presented.
Again, I’m not saying slavery is justifiable – only that the whole picture isn’t being presented.
In conclusion, I think we can both agree on the principal that the whole truth has not been taught but that it should be.
I Had no idea... Anyone else ever hear of anything like this?
Originally posted by RexxCrow
Did you know that White slavery existed in America prior to Black slavery? Why is it that schools fail to teach this to us all?
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The numbers are impossible, so far, to pin down, but some white bondage clearly occurred. In an era when human beings were the most valuable commodities available to thieves and slave traders, greed occasionally trumped the crucial myth that there was a strict dividing line between the races. And while there were instances of what appeared to onlookers as "purebred" whites being sold on auction blocks, those Anglo-Saxons were being sold as "blacks." One had to become physically or socially accepted as black to be legally sold into chattel slavery and enter into the full degradation of American bondage. As light-skinned blacks sometimes gained their freedom by "passing" as white, so did hapless Caucasians make the reverse journey -- proving that race and bondage were even more fluid concepts in antebellum America than we would like to believe.
Slaves of a different color